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Juicy tidbits from “The Art of Kissing”

Posted by / February 15, 2013

a kiss under the tree

While sex advice is freely available in every grocery line, it seems as if we’ve lost sight of the more innocent side of sexuality, namely, the art of kissing.

If yesterday’s smooches left something to be desired, it might be time to go back to an oldie but goodie when it comes to giving a good smooch, namely The Art of Kissing from 1936.

Maria Popova at BrainPickings has pulled some choice selections from this classic text so that you’ll be ready for next Valentine’s Day and perhaps to move onto the more advanced lessons offered in the magazines.

Where the girl’s mouth is of the tiny, rosebud type, then one need not worry about what to do. … However, there are many girls whose lips are broad and generous, whose lips are on the order of Joan Crawford’s, for instance. The technique in kissing such lips is different. For, were one to allow his lips to remain centered, there would be wide expanses of lips, untouched and, therefore, wasted. In such cases, instead of remaining adhered to the center of the lips, the young man should lift up his lips a trifle and begin to travel around the girl’s lips, stopping a number of times to drop a firm kiss in passing. When you have made a complete round of the lips, return immediately to the center bud and feast there. Feast there as did the lover of Fatimas, in Tennyson’s poem, in which it was written that: ‘Once he drew, with one long kiss, my whole soul through my lips — as sunlight drinketh dew.’

Then, sip of the honey.

You don’t get poetry like that in Cosmo, people.

Full story at Brain Pickings.

Pucker up with confidence!

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